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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1905 



'Craigston,' the House of T. C. Hollander, Esq. 



Wenham, Massachusetts 



PLEASANT drive through a hilly country 

 and past many fine estates forms the ap- 

 proach to Mr. T. C. Hollander's house, at 

 Wenham, Mass. It is placed on the sum- 

 mit of a high hill, which affords magnificent 

 outlooks for many miles around. Wonder- 

 ful views, indeed, can be had from every part of this house, 

 each hilltop bearing a notable estate or a rare old farmhouse 

 whose picturesque qualities have been heightened with age. 

 Most of the land immediately around Mr. Hollander's 

 house has been left in its natural state, uncultivated so far 

 as modern art might change it, but still bearing a plentiful 

 foliage of native grass and wild flowers. A spacious ter- 



race has been cleared before the house, and beautifully 

 planted with shrubs and flowers; a true garden spot set 

 among wild surroundings. 



The house is a long, low, rambling structure, rough-cast, 

 with exposed timbers; very varied as to heights and roofs, 

 quite unsymmetrical in the disposition of its parts, yet full 

 of a character and charm that pervade and harmonize the 

 whole and render it a very interesting bit of design. It is, 

 in point of fact, a group of buildings homogeneously joined 

 together in a single structure, each part with a distinct pur- 

 pose and having an individual form. The residence portion 

 of the house occupies the center of the group. It is two 

 stories in height, with two baywindows as its leading feature; 



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" Craigston" — The Entrance Front 



